Dr. Cynthia Simmons presented as an invited featured speaker at the International Colloquium on Socio-Environmental Politics at Rhodes House, Oxford University, on 31 Jan 2020 in a talk titled Dynamic Amazonia: Lessons for a Changing World. Amazonia is critical to the global environment given its store of biodiversity and its repository of carbon. Since the […]
Thursday, February 27, 2020 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3018 University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Our Master’s Students will present their research in a poster session for this Colloquium.
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Dr. Robert Walker‘s work was recently featured in Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study, an article in Mongabay. The present study, led by Robert Walker at the University of Florida, Gainesville, combined projections of future agricultural expansion published by Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA) and the Food […]
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MedGeo researchers from the Quantitative Disease Ecology & Conservation Lab (QDEC Lab) and Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Laboratory (SEER Lab) made a strong showing at Emerging Pathogens Institute‘s EPI Research Day 2020!
Speaker: Maíra Irigaray Castro PhD Student, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, February 13, 2020 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3018 University of Florida All are welcome to attend. The Munduruku Movement Ipereğ Ayũ (MMIA), which in Munduruku translates to “We are strong; We know how to protect ourselves and all We […]
Yesterday, SEER Lab and QDEC Lab held an impromptu meeting in the GIS Teaching Lab (Turlington Hall 3006) to listen to David Quammen discuss the 2019-nCoV coronavirus emerging out of China on Fresh Air on NPR. David Quammen is a long-time science writer and the author of the 2012 non-fiction “Spillover”, which journals the pursuit […]
University of Florida Department of Geography The Navi-Gator February 2020, ISSUE 4 (Download PDF) Evening of excellence Continued… Congratulations to our winners! We loved having you all for a night of celebration, reward and remembrance! Anderson Award for International Travel- Leandra Merz Top Published Research Articles- Mehedy Hassan for Geospatial Analysis and Techniques & Global […]
Land Systems and Climate Justice Speaker: Dr. Darla Munroe Professor & Department Chair, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University Friday, 21 February 2020 3:00 – 4:30 PM Reitz Union G330 University of Florida There is greater recognition among IPCC and other scientific networks of the complex role land systems play in adaptation to and […]
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Reciprocal Relationships Between Forest Management and Regional Landscape Structures Speaker: Dr. Darla Munroe Professor & Department Chair, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University Thursday, 20 February 2020 3:00 PM Turlington Hall 3018 University of Florida Meet & Great reception to follow in Turlington 3018 Maintaining forest cover and function given large-scale changes in population […]
Speaker: Dr. Jason von Meding Associate Professor M.E Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) , University of Florida Thursday, February 6, 2020 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3018 University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Framing disasters as something natural absolves those creating risk of […]
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